Complaint Number: PSY-2023-0001

The process of investigation has begun and is in process. I want to share this all first hand with you. I had to use symbols in some words because they were considered profanities on this platform. This letter is to the compliance officer assigned to my case.

Hello Ms. Lugo,

My name is Sandra Wyllie. I have made a complaint against Dr. Richard Geist. As of now 26 states hold psychologists that have sex with their patients as a criminal act punishable by jail. They refer to this as statutory rape. I wish that Massachusetts was one that held this belief. As I have stated I had a two-year affair from 2014-2016 with Dr. James Barbaria that I did receive monetary compensation as well as filing a complaint with this board. The trauma goes much deeper with Dr. Geist as he planted the seed in my head and encouraged this unethical relationship with Dr. Barbaria. It should be considered malpractice for a psychologist to condone and assist in a sexual relationship between his patient and her other psychologist that is ongoing.?I have every email from both psychologists to show proof of this. I only now, this being my third attempt to file a complaint have had the courage to go forward because I have distanced myself form Dr. Geist since August of 2021. I have blocked his email and his phone so he can no longer contact me.?

I turned into an alcoholic in my fifties after 16 years of Dr. Geist's unethical treatment. I tried to get away from him on dozens of occasions but he kept brainwashing me that I couldn't live without him. He encouraged me to have a sexual relationship with Dr. Barbaria. He took him on as his patient and saw us both for "couples therapy" even though I was married and living with my husband and young son. This completely shattered my family. He tried to talk me out of reporting Dr. Barbaria to the licensing board. I felt that the two of them "ganged up on me" I have severe insomnia and panic attacks over the abuse. Although I never had sex with Dr. Geist he crossed boundaries by allowing me to sit in his lap (touch his pen*s) and lay on the floor with him. I know that he has a mole on his chest, above his belly button. Now how would I know such an intimate detail as that? There are NO pictures of him shirtless on the internet. When I first went to Dr. Geist he flirted with me and wrote me intimate emails, a couple I have included with my complaint. He kept wanting to see me for over 5 hours a week for free!?I could call him 24/7 on vacations or weekends or in the middle of the night. My biggest regret is that I did not go through with the complaint to this board in 2008. I rescinded that. In fact it took a?1???YEARS AWAY from him to finally see things straight. They say hindsight is 20/20.?I hope this board will take what he did seriously and respond in such a manner to it.

Thank You,

Sandra L. Wyllie